In early 2019, we launched our fundraising challenge to raise money for the Oxford-Nairobi mentorship scheme - Cycle to Nairobi! Between the committee we cycled and walked the distance from Oxford to Nairobi in 5 weeks! We started on 18th February and by 31st March had travelled 4,284.40 miles collectively with each committee member cycling, running or hiking part of the distance. Bridging the distance between Oxford and Nairobi we are celebrated and raised money for the launch of our first collaborative pilot project!
Our mentorship scheme is a joint project by Kite Oxford and Kite Nairobi which was launched in January 2019. It aims to reduce the rate of dropouts in high schools, develop pupils’ entrepreneurial skills, and bring awareness of vocational training opportunities to students from disadvantaged backgrounds in Kenya. The scheme utilises university student mentors who have been trained to act as enthusiastic and able role models for high school age mentees and who will provide them with effective careers and skills development support in one-on-one sessions, group activity sessions as well as special activities.
You can find out more about our mentorship scheme on our project page.